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...right. In general, men need to recognize that when a woman gives up control of caretaking duties, that threatens her identity as a mother more than it adds to his identity as a father. Researchers at the University of Illinois have studied how people see themselves as parents. Men revel in being fathers, and they will rate themselves as excellent dads regardless of how many diapers they change. Not so for women. The culture has told her she's not a real mother unless she's the one getting up in the middle of the night with the baby...
...only by inculcating the maxim that the pen is mightier than the sword rather than the one that says power flows from the barrel of a gun. Samuel Nwankwo Madrid The cover picture of al-Zarqawi with a red X on his face was insensitive and frankly revolting. To revel in the death of a fellow human being, no matter how hateful to you his actions may have been, is no way to encourage the cessation of terrorist activities or bring opposing parties to the mediation table. Ask any South African. We heard just the same tales regarding the terrorists...
...French are ready to demand more of ourselves in general. There's a real problem at the foundation of our society. To catch up we need a President and Ministers and intellectuals who want to listen. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has complained about the déclinologues who revel in chronicling France's fall. Are you one? I'm very critical of the state of French universities. But in the end, I suggest that with major surgery we can improve things. So I don't consider myself a déclinologue, but rather someone unhappy about seeing my country...
...strike changes history in Iraq, it will be a matter more of momentum than mechanics. For the thousands of Americans fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan as part of what the Pentagon calls a "Long War" against terrorism, the ability to pause, even for an hour, to revel in a clear military success was welcome. "A cult figure is dead because people he trusted betrayed him," a senior U.S. government official mused on his back porch in Washington on the night of the announcement, smoking a cigar and sipping wine. "They'll be studying this op years from...
...happiness and affluence. But even true images are sinful imitations of God, who can alone create. Relief at escaping their students unscathed for another day makes the teachers' chatter of farewell in the halls and on the parking lot too loud, like the rising excitement of drunks. The teachers revel when they are away from the school. Some have the pink lids and bad breaths and puffy bodies of those who habitually drink too much. Some get divorces; some live with others unmarried. Their lives away from the school are disorderly and wanton and self-indulgent. They are paid...